Yes, I knew that Windows works on X86 hardware, X86 can run Windows, Unix and Linux.
I think you've missed a big part of my message: Sugar sucks, and Windows sucks even more.
Whether we install Windows on a moon rock or your grandmother's cat, the computing object will then suck more than when Windows was not installed on it. Now try to work your amazing grasp of comp architecture back into the discussion.
I'm a guy thats had 3 linux boxes and all the rest OS X Apples, so I'm not a MS-friendly troll.
Sugar just sucks. The array of educational apps are totally fine. I've been tempted to overwrite the OS with Ubuntu, but actually desire the edu-focus for my toddler, who has already inherited this machine.
Now that Windows is in the picture I see this whole project as a curse on those its trying to help.
My understanding is Sugar was unlike most of the FOSS movement, written by a Temple of one/few people rather than a Bazaar of multiple-minds. An object lesson in failure.
Sold too USA good, sold to Iran bad is a good inconsistency because of another level: Iran is an unpopular theocracy using the technology to sustain their reign.
Even factoring in the likely illegitimacy of G W Bush's reign, the rulership in the USA has never been as sustained/entrenched unpopular regime as that of Iran.
It is Apples and Oranges, and one should not get the technology.
In my casual reading of local crime cases, the majority of crimes solved rely on surveillance footage.
I don't mind being filmed/monitored in any public space, and I vote.
I [ the user ] only want to access everything through a web browser.
Within a more nuanced statement, let this be stated:
I want to access what your app does or shows from random machines throughout the day, that makes installing a specific executable unacceptable.
On the developer and business side of considerations you may figure out web apps are problematic, and decide to abandon browser based coding. Your decision is a tree falling in a forest with no one to hear. Anything your project makes that does not show in a browser will go unused by the most modern class of computer users.
Oh, and take your punk-ass approach to programming to the Windows 98 forum. Ballmer's lurking there, looking for friends with an anti-thin client stance.
According to my MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: Cities function as a cognitive artifact. Cognitive artifacts are external physical things that aid cognition.
Humans are not all the same, and what most humans were 10,000 years ago has little to do with our default abilities and preferences today. There is not even a linear progression, various climate and cultural filters have output humans with vastly different ideal environments.
The nature-would-do-us-best thesis is a feelgood mythology for people ill suited for the present technological norms most humans practice.
On a personal note have lived in Seattle, Akutan AK (island in Bering Sea), Kanab UT, and Antarctica. My mind did fine in all four places.
This being Slashdot and we are talking about Antarctica I must tell this story.
I was at McMurdo 1995-6. In the winter-over we are down to around 190 people, and one unix sys admin for the base. He had been there through the summer, so I had gotten to know him before the sun set and winter began. He seemed normal enough in a loner sort of way in the summer. I even got my first exposure to unix know-how from him.
As the winter set in, this unix admin began a new behavior. He would bark. Yes, bark with a real barking sound. He would only bark when upset at someone or something. At the wine bar (yes, wine bar ) someone said something he disagreed with and he just....barked. One very articulate and semantically well-formed bark.
A few weeks later I saw a sign behind the bartender that said "No Barking".
I lurked in the Crary Lab Mac Lab during my free time, enjoying the early WWW before spam-crud polluted it. One time, as I surfed the net, the unix admin was doing his job on another terminal. I guess he was having trouble with a script or other command line incantation. I heard him snapping his teeth at the keyboard, just a like a dog.
This promoted unix like no other marketing campaign, I have been using Linux or OS X Unix ever since.
My answer only goes for 95-96.
I'm not sure of the ratio, but maybe females made up 30%.
I supply that figure as a wild azz guess, someone out there may be able to data mine NSF reports for the true figure.
What geeks want to know: it is very hard to avoid having sex while on the Ice. In explicit language geeks can understand: Sex is prevalent, and distributed almost evenly.
I was at McMurdo 95-96, for 13 months ( Winfly, Summer, Winter, Summer).
Yeah, I agree that summer is not that hard. More like: its great.
The mating scenarios there are called ice-marriages, ice-wives, ice-husbands. Thats the enduring ones. Then there are the thousands of serial relationship hook-ups. Some got through the winter by logging amazing amounts of hours in bed (WITH SOMEONE ELSE!!).
Then there was the whole girls-nude-in-suana-looking-for-a-hookup, thing.
Ahem, and a lot of the guys and girls are geeks.
My own account is written here: http://lanceville-antarctica.appspot.com/?page=antarctica-alaska
As I recall, Christmas at McMurdo was a lot of fun, plenty of people, parties, and the weather is usually great.
We must create regulations that stem this awful tide which threatens ancient ways and will likely cause hardship on families.
When Bono speaks to this ocean, I want the ocean to listen and offer to help.
I use google apps, I don't care if the real backend is Microsoft 2003
Server interpreting all my code into VBScript, I write in the Python
on my end, the whole Python culture is very shared knowledge kind of place, and that is good e_f_ckin_nuff for me. Its a free server. It interprets Python. Python has EVERY quality that GNU has that I like. Where they differ I know and could write a paper on, and don't care. I rock on.
Surveillance is not a denial of rights, suppression of freedom, nor any form of physical harm. Surveillance is how we defend the populace.
If a police officer asks me where I am going, I tell him. I know the process is to catch a bad guy and suppress his freedom. I like that.
I want detection of crimes, and apprehension of criminals, to be fundamentally rooted in machine automation. I am for these machines being implemented by both government and private citizens. Using populist cloud technologies ( e,g, some variation of Youtube and real time chat rooms) citizens could make this type of law enforcement a design of the community rather than design of distant bureaucratic experts working for a specific political regime ( e.g. the Bush Administration).
We have entered an age in which privacy and anonymity lend more to vulnerability and non-representation in the economic system -and police protection is part of that economic system.
1984 is a great book, and was about Stalin's 1948 Russia, a powerless peasant class owned by an elite. But citizens in the 2008 G8 countries have access to technologies and sophisticated communications that render 1984's metaphors less meaningful.
We have entered an era in which a happy and secure human is enabled by assistance from machine automation in domains considered sociological.
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Yes, I knew that Windows works on X86 hardware, X86 can run Windows, Unix and Linux. I think you've missed a big part of my message: Sugar sucks, and Windows sucks even more. Whether we install Windows on a moon rock or your grandmother's cat, the computing object will then suck more than when Windows was not installed on it. Now try to work your amazing grasp of comp architecture back into the discussion.
I'm a guy thats had 3 linux boxes and all the rest OS X Apples, so I'm not a MS-friendly troll. Sugar just sucks. The array of educational apps are totally fine. I've been tempted to overwrite the OS with Ubuntu, but actually desire the edu-focus for my toddler, who has already inherited this machine. Now that Windows is in the picture I see this whole project as a curse on those its trying to help. My understanding is Sugar was unlike most of the FOSS movement, written by a Temple of one/few people rather than a Bazaar of multiple-minds. An object lesson in failure.
Sold too USA good, sold to Iran bad is a good inconsistency because of another level: Iran is an unpopular theocracy using the technology to sustain their reign. Even factoring in the likely illegitimacy of G W Bush's reign, the rulership in the USA has never been as sustained/entrenched unpopular regime as that of Iran. It is Apples and Oranges, and one should not get the technology.
In my casual reading of local crime cases, the majority of crimes solved rely on surveillance footage. I don't mind being filmed/monitored in any public space, and I vote.
Facilitating features for smart people, facilitates threats for dumb people. Its a story as old as technology.
Life is hard
Its even harder if you're stupid.
I [ the user ] only want to access everything through a web browser.
Within a more nuanced statement, let this be stated: I want to access what your app does or shows from random machines throughout the day, that makes installing a specific executable unacceptable.
On the developer and business side of considerations you may figure out web apps are problematic, and decide to abandon browser based coding. Your decision is a tree falling in a forest with no one to hear. Anything your project makes that does not show in a browser will go unused by the most modern class of computer users.
Oh, and take your punk-ass approach to programming to the Windows 98 forum. Ballmer's lurking there, looking for friends with an anti-thin client stance.
Right on. Living without technology and civilization is a lust only idiots have.
According to my MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: Cities function as a cognitive artifact. Cognitive artifacts are external physical things that aid cognition.
Humans are not all the same, and what most humans were 10,000 years ago has little to do with our default abilities and preferences today. There is not even a linear progression, various climate and cultural filters have output humans with vastly different ideal environments.
The nature-would-do-us-best thesis is a feelgood mythology for people ill suited for the present technological norms most humans practice.
On a personal note have lived in Seattle, Akutan AK (island in Bering Sea), Kanab UT, and Antarctica. My mind did fine in all four places.
This being Slashdot and we are talking about Antarctica I must tell this story. I was at McMurdo 1995-6. In the winter-over we are down to around 190 people, and one unix sys admin for the base. He had been there through the summer, so I had gotten to know him before the sun set and winter began. He seemed normal enough in a loner sort of way in the summer. I even got my first exposure to unix know-how from him. As the winter set in, this unix admin began a new behavior. He would bark. Yes, bark with a real barking sound. He would only bark when upset at someone or something. At the wine bar (yes, wine bar ) someone said something he disagreed with and he just....barked. One very articulate and semantically well-formed bark. A few weeks later I saw a sign behind the bartender that said "No Barking". I lurked in the Crary Lab Mac Lab during my free time, enjoying the early WWW before spam-crud polluted it. One time, as I surfed the net, the unix admin was doing his job on another terminal. I guess he was having trouble with a script or other command line incantation. I heard him snapping his teeth at the keyboard, just a like a dog. This promoted unix like no other marketing campaign, I have been using Linux or OS X Unix ever since.
My answer only goes for 95-96. I'm not sure of the ratio, but maybe females made up 30%. I supply that figure as a wild azz guess, someone out there may be able to data mine NSF reports for the true figure. What geeks want to know: it is very hard to avoid having sex while on the Ice. In explicit language geeks can understand: Sex is prevalent, and distributed almost evenly.
I was at McMurdo 95-96, for 13 months ( Winfly, Summer, Winter, Summer). Yeah, I agree that summer is not that hard. More like: its great. The mating scenarios there are called ice-marriages, ice-wives, ice-husbands. Thats the enduring ones. Then there are the thousands of serial relationship hook-ups. Some got through the winter by logging amazing amounts of hours in bed (WITH SOMEONE ELSE!!). Then there was the whole girls-nude-in-suana-looking-for-a-hookup, thing. Ahem, and a lot of the guys and girls are geeks. My own account is written here: http://lanceville-antarctica.appspot.com/?page=antarctica-alaska As I recall, Christmas at McMurdo was a lot of fun, plenty of people, parties, and the weather is usually great.
I seriously doubt any OS can outperform Vista. I mean, really guys, come on.
Only works with MS SQL Server? We can safely dismiss any group of humans that consider this language.
We must create regulations that stem this awful tide which threatens ancient ways and will likely cause hardship on families. When Bono speaks to this ocean, I want the ocean to listen and offer to help.
I use google apps, I don't care if the real backend is Microsoft 2003 Server interpreting all my code into VBScript, I write in the Python on my end, the whole Python culture is very shared knowledge kind of place, and that is good e_f_ckin_nuff for me. Its a free server. It interprets Python. Python has EVERY quality that GNU has that I like. Where they differ I know and could write a paper on, and don't care. I rock on.
My take is the Left is more prone to adhering to an orthodoxy than anyone. I say this and I'm an inner-city liberal.
Surveillance is not a denial of rights, suppression of freedom, nor any form of physical harm. Surveillance is how we defend the populace. If a police officer asks me where I am going, I tell him. I know the process is to catch a bad guy and suppress his freedom. I like that.
Thanks, totally agree.
Oh, MSN, Hotmail, MSN Messenger, OneCare and other Microsoft services aren't very interesting. No wonder its not very well known.
What is "windows live".
Maybe the tenable target is non-tech-savvy, possibly impoverished and ignorant class of people involved in crime.
I am for artificial intel and CCTV involved in law enforcement and killing terrorists.
I want detection of crimes, and apprehension of criminals, to be fundamentally rooted in machine automation. I am for these machines being implemented by both government and private citizens. Using populist cloud technologies ( e,g, some variation of Youtube and real time chat rooms) citizens could make this type of law enforcement a design of the community rather than design of distant bureaucratic experts working for a specific political regime ( e.g. the Bush Administration). We have entered an age in which privacy and anonymity lend more to vulnerability and non-representation in the economic system -and police protection is part of that economic system. 1984 is a great book, and was about Stalin's 1948 Russia, a powerless peasant class owned by an elite. But citizens in the 2008 G8 countries have access to technologies and sophisticated communications that render 1984's metaphors less meaningful. We have entered an era in which a happy and secure human is enabled by assistance from machine automation in domains considered sociological.
Why isn't there a bureaucratic process to get clearance to research content that normally triggers suspicion from authorities?